The Google Traffic Deal Is Over: What Every Digital Marketer Needs to Build Next
65% of Google searches end without a single click. AI Overviews reduce click-through rates by 8-10 percentage points. Google’s 2026 AI Mode announcement accelerates a trend that has been building for years. The deal every content marketer operated under is over — and the response is not to optimise harder for the platform that broke it. Here is the strategic reorientation every marketing team needs to make now.
